Instructional Video4:12
Healthcare Triage

How's This Coronavirus Gonna Play Out?

Higher Ed
We're still firmly on the "Don't Panic" message with the Coronavirus outbreak. This week we're going to look at a couple of scenarios for how this thing could play out.
Instructional Video11:42
Nature League

Predicting Future Humans - From A to B

6th - 8th
In this episode of "From A to B", Adrian and Brit co-create a potential future human based on both realistic and absurd adaptations.
Instructional Video12:00
Nature League

Biodiversity and Complex Life Forms - From A to B

6th - 8th
In this episode of "From A to B", Adrian asks Brit about the relationships between intelligence, evolution, biodiversity, and tool use.
Instructional Video5:09
Nature League

The Threats Facing Forests - Field Trip

6th - 8th
In this Nature League Field Trip, Brit gets a first-hand look at the challenges facing forests in the Rocky Mountains, including fires, drought, climate change, and pine beetles. Special thanks to Professor Diana Six at the University of...
Instructional Video8:49
Nature League

Nature + Performing Arts

6th - 8th
On this special edition of Nature League, Brit explores nature in the context of the performing arts by showing the behind-the-scenes process of putting on a production of Disney's "The Little Mermaid". Special thanks to the Missoula...
Instructional Video9:39
Nature League

How Do Animals Make Sounds? - Field Trip

6th - 8th
In this Nature League Field Trip, Brit sits down with Dr. Laurie Slovarp to explore the ways that humans and non-human animals make sounds. A special thanks to Dr. Slovarp for collaborating on this Nature League Field Trip.
Instructional Video9:09
Professor Dave Explains

Cholera: Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139

9th - Higher Ed
What is cholera exactly? Believe it or not, this disease isn't gone, it's still an issue in various parts of the world. It's caused by Vibrio cholerae, and in particular two serotypes of this bacterium. Let's get some details!
Instructional Video2:23
Visual Learning Systems

Understanding Speciation and Adaptive Radiation

9th - 12th
This video explains the concept of speciation and how it occurs through natural selection and adaptation. It highlights the importance of isolation in promoting speciation, using the example of the Galapagos Islands and their endemic...
Instructional Video12:46
Nature League

Nature + Philosophy

6th - 8th
In this special, 5th week edition of Nature League, Brit explores the concept of nature and life on Earth in the context of another discipline in a segment called "Nature+". In this episode, Brit is joined by philosophy professor Dr....
Instructional Video6:48
Nature League

Exploring Evolution and Speciation - Lesson Plan

6th - 8th
In this Nature League Lesson Plan, Brit explains the mechanisms and nuances of evolution and speciation.
Instructional Video5:52
Bizarre Beasts

The Primate That Might Hold The Key to Long Distance Space Travel

Pre-K - Higher Ed
To make long distance space travel possible, we need to figure out how to hibernate. But we're primates, and primates just can't do that! Or can we...?
Instructional Video7:35
Nature League

Exploring the Plant Kingdom - Lesson Plan

6th - 8th
In this Nature League Lesson Plan, Brit introduces the plant kingdom, including their origin story, relationships, adaptations, and awesomeness.
Instructional Video7:46
Nature League

Biodiversity and Extinction Vulnerability - De-Natured

6th - 8th
In this De-Natured segment of Nature League, Brit breaks down a recent scientific journal article about the impact of biodiversity on extinction vulnerability in terms of trophic redundancy. Article citation: Dirk Sanders, Elisa...
Instructional Video8:25
Nature League

Does Life on Earth Have a Voice? - Lesson Plan

6th - 8th
In this Nature League Lesson Plan, Brit explores the four main categories of communication for life on Earth, and discusses the realities of interspecies communication. Guest starring: Adrian Adams as the bit partner, Sean Kirkpatrick as...
Instructional Video6:24
Nature League

Nature + Engineering

6th - 8th
On this special edition of Nature League, Brit explores nature in the context of engineering by describing and displaying some examples of high tech and everyday biomimicry.
Instructional Video8:03
Nature League

Increasing Night Life of Mammals - De-Natured

6th - 8th
In this De-Natured segment of Nature League, Brit breaks down a recent scientific journal article about the increasing nocturnality of mammals around the globe. Article citation: Gaynor, K.M., Hojnowski, C.E., Carter, N.H., and...
Instructional Video11:31
Nature League

Adaptations at Animal Wonders - Field Trip

6th - 8th
In this Nature League Field Trip, Brit joins Jessi Knudsen Castaneda at Animal Wonders Montana to discuss defensive adaptations across the animal kingdom. Animal Wonders is an organization dedicated to adopting displaced wildlife and...
Instructional Video4:54
Nature League

What is Biodiversity? - Lesson Plan

6th - 8th
In this Nature League Lesson Plan, Brit explains the levels, dimensions, and values associated with biodiversity.
Instructional Video4:14
Nature League

What Are Adaptations? - Lesson Plan

6th - 8th
In this Nature League Lesson Plan, Brit discusses physical and behavioral adaptations of life on Earth and shares some of her favorites.
News Clip3:13
Curated Video

Sierra Leone resumes timber exports, worrying environmentalists

9th - Higher Ed
Activists fear effort to counter falling revenue from mining could erase gains made over last 10 years to regrow country’s forests.
News Clip2:30
Curated Video

Could polio be eradicated by 2018?

9th - Higher Ed
Poliomyelitis – or polio – could be gone by 2018, according to the latest data from the World Health Organisation.



Only seven cases have been identified globally so far

this year.

It is...
News Clip5:06
Curated Video

Not Ready for 'Mission Accomplished' as Biden Marks Tragic COVID Milestone

9th - Higher Ed
During the global pandemic summit, President Biden marked a "tragic milestone" of at least one million deaths from COVID-19 in the United States, and Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt Medical Center,...
News Clip1:48
Curated Video

Epidemiologist pushes back against talk of COVID-19 becoming endemic

9th - Higher Ed
Dr. Christopher Labos, an epidemiologist and cardiologist in Montreal, says it's too early to think COVID-19 will become a more stable and predictable endemic disease, because the world could see new variants.
News Clip5:01
Curated Video

Omicron brings hopeful signs of pandemic’s end with plenty of caveats

9th - Higher Ed
There is some optimism the Omicron wave could signal the beginning of the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, but experts also point out many caveats because it's unclear how long immunity lasts and if it will protect against future variants.